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Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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Absent Act Condition Deed Doer Essence
Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar,
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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Anger Enemy Exhaust Foe Kill Own Quell Real Spend
Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion
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Coming Compassion Emptiness Enlightenment Essence Profound Serenity Teach Ultimate
Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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Entering Impurity Ocean Spring Tree Water
A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
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According Buddham Teacher God Other Refrain Sin Student Tolerance Urge
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
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To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.
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Duality Find Frightening Profound Some Taught
Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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Act Create Creature Imagine Magician Other Perform
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery.
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Follow Misery Pleasure Wheel
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Driven Log Moving River Together Wave Wood
That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.
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Arise Dependent Different Least Nether Thing
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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Alone Bear Beggar Help Provide Reward Suffer
A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?
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Consciousness Earth Fire Person Space Them Water Wind
Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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Desire Just Pleasure Still

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